HAIKOU,
China, Sept. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A report
from Hainan International Media Center (HIMC):
On September 21, the 14th China
International Digital Publishing Expo opened in Haikou, capital city of south China's Hainan
Province. This year's Expo focuses on topics such as
developing new quality productive forces in the publishing
industry, creating high-quality digital publishing content, and
promoting international cooperation in digital publishing.
Including representatives from international professional
organizations such as the Japan Book Publishers Association, Korea
Creative Content Agency, and the French Syndicat national de
l'édition, over 600 domestic and foreign guests met to share
insights and discuss cooperation in digital publishing at the main
forum.
In France, digitalization has
breathed new life into old books. At the main forum, Virginie
Clayssen, chair of Syndicat national de l'édition Digital
Commission, introduced their "Relier" project to digitize early
20th century French books with the goal of reviving over 96,000
out-of-print titles through technological means.
Arnout Jacobs, president of
Springer Nature Greater China, believes that even with AI's rapid
development, human participation will continue to play an important
role in the publishing industry. "AI will not replace humans, but
will only become a powerful assistant to humans, helping us to
develop more efficiently and faster. In the process of
digitalization of the publishing industry, we need to decide which
technologies can be used and which should be abandoned, and select
those technologies that can help us develop and benefit
mankind."
As it is driven by waves of globalization, the development of
digital publishing is bound to move in that direction. Seiichi Higuchi, general legal representative
and executive director of the Japan Book Publishers Association,
holds the view that the development of digitalization and the
technological upgrading of distribution channels are not something
that can be solved by a single country on its own. "We must have a
clear understanding of the international situation, strengthen
international cooperation on the basis of maintaining technical
standards and legal coordination, and jointly explore our future
direction."
In building an open digital economy innovation highland,
Hainan has become a fertile ground
for the digital publishing boom. "Hainan Publishing and
Distribution Group is building a digital publishing and copyright
trade incubation base that leverages the policy advantages of the
safe and orderly flow of data in the free trade port to develop
foreign digital cultural trade and promote cultural exports," said
Wu Bin, chairman of Hainan Publishing and Distribution Group.
Over the three days of the Expo, its 30,000m² exhibition area
will welcome over 500 publishing companies and cultural and
technological enterprises with their new products and projects. It
will also showcase new achievements and breakthroughs in
international cooperation in digital publishing.
A report released by the China Academy of Press and Publication
at the exhibition shows the overall scale of China's digital publishing industry reached
over 1.6 trillion yuan ($0.23 trillion) in 2023, a year-on-year increase
of 19.08%.
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